Have you ever embroidered? Or played with an embroidery thread? You may not be keen, but maybe school got you to try it? Well, school got me into needing to learn and get graded on embroidery, among other things, one year.
In my last post, I had written about my new illustration project (shared on my Instagram) called #BodyShamingArchetypes. I have also written a little more of a personal anecdotal motivation behind it here.
October 2016 is when I began my tryst with visual expression. Before that, I had spent two decades falling for humiliation dished out by art teachers at school who believed that art could be created through set rules alone and if any hint of individual play came out, it needed to be beaten down out of existence.
COVID, a high-profile and highly politicised passing of an actor, social distance and social media. These are some of the ingredients that we seem to have found ourselves in as we all individually and collectively try to navigate this inundation of our senses with external information, and the information within our bodies and minds as they try to process, assimilate and integrate simultaneously.
This is the second zine that I ever made, and the first hand-made mixed media zine made with a group as enthusiastic as I was about zine-making.
I had been wondering how to start my first post here on ScrollStack - "should I create an introduction post, or should I start off with a set agenda on what I intend to share". However, I decided that I would share a little of both and evolve with time. As with life in 2020 and otherwise in the process of creation, let us just flow.
